This Mutated Beast was enormous, covered from head to toe in pitch-black scales. Its head resembled neither a lion nor a tiger, its limbs were thick and powerful, and its claws gleamed with a cold light. Even in death, a faint Fierce Fiendish Qi still lingered around it.
There was a massive wound in its chest, the flesh around it already blackened. It was clearly a specimen deliberately preserved after being slain by Heavenly Clan Cultivators.
Lin Taichu stepped forward and lightly touched the Mutated Beast's corpse with his fingertips. He could sense a strange residual Soul Power within it, identical to the Soul Power found in the Mutated Beasts controlled on the Demon Continent.
Several jade bottles and a yellowed booklet rested beside the stone platform. Faintly visible on its cover were the words "Mutated Beast Research."
He reached for the booklet, intending to examine its contents. Just as his fingertips were about to touch it, footsteps suddenly sounded outside the stone house, accompanied by a sharp rebuke. "Insolent foreign cultivator! How dare you trespass into forbidden grounds!"
Lin Taichu's heart tightened. He immediately turned around and saw four Heavenly Clan cultivators in white feathered robes standing at the entrance. Their leader was a mid-stage fifth-tier cultivator whose Soul Power erupted as he locked firmly onto Lin Taichu.
The other three Cultivators also circulated their Soul Power, forming an encirclement that trapped him within the stone house.
"Take him!" At the lead Heavenly Clan cultivator's command, the three cultivators immediately rushed forward, condensing white Soul Power blades in their hands and thrusting them at Lin Taichu.
Lin Taichu circulated his Soul Power and flashed aside, evading the attack. At the same time, he condensed a strand of black Soul Power at his fingertips and struck back at one of